Wearing the hijab made a passing-white woman feel minority for the first time

Evidence

Maryam, a twenty-nine-year-old Syrian American who was born in the Midwest, decided to wear the hijab after her second year of college. She grew up in a predominantly white small town in the Midwest. Maryam said she passed for white before she decided to wear the hijab. She said she felt like a minority for the first time in her life when she started wearing the hijab. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 284

Categorization

• XREF: Directly evidences the religion-becomes-race mechanism the reader is after: a Syrian American who ‘passed for white’ until the hijab racialized her body. Strongly parallels accounts of how visible markers shift racial classification.